Supply Chain Ships Items North Donated Goods Reach First Nations Communities

PAGES 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 9 Primate attends Three bishops New chaplain special service installed in areas for Sunnybrook TheTHE NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO A A SECTION OF THE ANGnLICAN JOURNAL g l www.tiorontoc.anglican.ca n MARCH 2017 Supply chain ships items north Donated goods reach First Nations communities BY STUART MANN IN late January, three transport trucks loaded with donated hock - ey equipment and other items left a Mississauga warehouse for Timmins and the remote commu - nities of Pickle Lake and Red Lake. From there, the cargo will be put on airplanes and flown to 11 First Nations communities sprinkled across northern On - tario. Some of the hockey equipment is bound for Kashechewan First Nation, located on the Albany River near James Bay. The com - munity has a new arena but not enough sticks, skates, helmets and pads to go around. When the shipment arrives, there will be enough equipment for 12 teams. One of the people behind the trip is John Andras, an Anglican Gerald Lue and Susan Hicks get boxes of donated hockey equipment and from Peterborough. He helps to other items ready for shipment at the Mississauga warehouse. At right, coordinate a grassroots supply John Andras with items that were delivered in December. PHOTOS BY chain that transports donated MICHAEL HUDSON AND HIP items from southern Ontario to fly-in First Nations communities. assist schools in First Nations north. It was a daunting task but “For the northern communi - communities. “We very much the duo managed to do it – and an ties, often a warm coat is the dif - work with the communities,” he idea was born. ference between a child being says. “We listen to what the needs “We realized there was a dis - able to go to school or not going to are and try our best to fill those connect between people wanting school,” he says. “In a lot of ways, needs.” to do something – wanting to col - the delivery of those goods can be HIP’s in-kind collection and lect and perhaps having done a life-changing.” transportation program started collection – and them sitting with Mr. Andras is a director of HIP almost by accident last year, a school gym full of boxes and (Honoring Indigenous People), a when Mr. Andras and Cobourg asking, ‘Now what?’ What we’ve joint initiative of the Rotary Club resident Laurie Siblock had to fig - managed to do is create a supply and Indigenous leaders. The ure out how to ship 1,500 articles chain from the south to the charity seeks to educate Canadi - of winter clothing to nine First north.” ans about Indigenous issues and Nations communities in the Continued on Page 8 Anglicans support Muslims after attack BY STUART MANN lowing the deadly attack on a 250 Christians, Jews, Muslims dreds of Anglicans across the dio - AND MARTHA HOLMEN Quebec City mosque a few days and others as worshippers en - cese who took part in events and earlier. tered the mosque for Friday organized gatherings in support Angela Forbes took part in a “This is an amazing experi - prayers. “There’s so many people of Muslims in the days after the “ring of peace” outside a mosque ence,” said Ms. Forbes, a member and so much love being ex - Quebec City shooting, which left A woman holds a sign outside a in Toronto’s west end on Feb. 3 to of St. Anne, Gladstone Avenue in pressed.” six dead and 19 injured. mosque in Toronto. PHOTO BY show her support for Muslims fol - Toronto as she stood with about Ms. Forbes was one of hun - Continued on Page 12 MICHAEL HUDSON CHURCH WELCOMES SYRIAN REFUGEES – SEE PAGE 7 2 The Anglican N E W S March 2017 The Sudanese Community Church of Toronto’s choir sings a hymn, ac - companied by drums and tambourines. Archbishop Fred Hiltz talks with children at the beginning of the service. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON Primate attends Enjoying African and Canadian food after the service. special service Sudanese congregation worships at Toronto church BY JANICE BIEHN bishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the and memorial services for family Anglican Church of Canada, cele - members and friends who were SEVEN years ago, St. Olave, brated the Eucharist and killed back home. Swansea in Toronto opened its preached. In his sermon, he com - “This annual joint service helps Archbishop Hiltz greets parishioners. doors to the Sudanese Communi - pared the story of the Holy Inno - us stay connected to the plight of ȱ ty Church of Toronto, offering a cents – baby boys killed at Herod’s our South Sudanese brothers and space to worship on Sunday after - decree – to the current violence sisters,” says the Rev. Robert 6W-2+1·6&(0(7(5< noons. Its pastor, the Rev. 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Top left, Bishop Shaw addresses the clergy and laity. At left, the Rev. Mary Bell-Plouffe tells the Gospel through Biblical storytelling. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON YORK-SCARBOROUGH Bishop Kevin Robertson is presented to the clergy and laity at his induction as the area bishop of York-Scar - borough on Jan. 22 at St. John, York Mills. Top right, Bishop Robertson greets people after the service. At right, applause for the new bishop. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON YORK-CREDIT VALLEY Bishop Jenny Andison is joined by the Rev. Susan Climo and parishioners of Holy Spirit of Peace, Mississauga, at her induction as the area bishop of York-Credit Valley on Jan. 22 at St. Matthew, Islington. At left, Bishop Andison and the choir (below) of the Church of South India in Mississauga. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON 4 The Anglican C O M M E N T March 2017 Do our lives align with our values? The Anglican read The Picture of Dori - ARCHBISHOP’S DIARY What we do actually matters – to us, to The Anglican is published under an Gray , Oscar Wilde’s our world, to God’s mission. It also matters the authority of the Bishop of Toronto Ionly novel, when I was a BY ARCHBISHOP COLIN JOHNSON how we do it. Both way and act are impor - and the Incorporated Synod of the teenager. It contains the tant. As part of a communion of saints, Diocese of Toronto. Opinions expressed in famous quip, “Nowadays, peo - compassion, collaboration, accountability, through time and place, we are mutually ac - The Anglican are not necessarily those of ple know the price of every - boldness. countable to God, each other and ourselves the editor or the publisher. thing, and the value of noth - Many think that Lent is a time to focus on for what we do and how we live. We bear one Canon Stuart Mann: Editor ing.” our sins and shortcomings. The great spiri - another’s burdens. We share in each other’s A couple of years later, he reused the line tual guides direct us to focus less on the triumphs.

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